Buchanan Dying

A Play

Fiction & Literature, Drama, American, Nonfiction, Entertainment, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century
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Author: John Updike ISBN: 9780812984910
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication: April 9, 2013
Imprint: Random House Language: English
Author: John Updike
ISBN: 9780812984910
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication: April 9, 2013
Imprint: Random House
Language: English

To the list of John Updike’s well-intentioned protagonists—Rabbit Angstrom, George Caldwell, Piet Hanema, Henry Bech—add James Buchanan, seen above as a young Congressman in the 1820’s, and on the front cover as the harried fifteenth President of the United States (1857-1861). In a play meant to be read, Buchanan’s political and private lives are represented as aspects of his spiritual life, whose crowning, condensing act is the act of dying. A wide-ranging Afterword rounds out the dramatic portrait of one of America’s lesser known, and least appreciated, leaders.

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To the list of John Updike’s well-intentioned protagonists—Rabbit Angstrom, George Caldwell, Piet Hanema, Henry Bech—add James Buchanan, seen above as a young Congressman in the 1820’s, and on the front cover as the harried fifteenth President of the United States (1857-1861). In a play meant to be read, Buchanan’s political and private lives are represented as aspects of his spiritual life, whose crowning, condensing act is the act of dying. A wide-ranging Afterword rounds out the dramatic portrait of one of America’s lesser known, and least appreciated, leaders.

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